British Ambassador HM Mark A.G Kent paid a working visit to Highland Education Development Organization ( HEDO Vietnam)

On April 28th 2008, the HM British Ambassador Mark A.G Kent and his wife visit HEDO’s office at No 4 Trinh Hoai Duc, Hanoi. After visiting the show room of HEDO, Prof Trinh Ngoc Trinh, Director of HEDO introduced to HM British Ambassador about projects HEDO has implemented such as school building projects, building vocational centers, training students overseas including nearly 100 students who are now studying in the UK, project of training doctors in term of HIV/AIDs prevention, training nurses for highland villages, training traditional midwives to serve for the ethnic minority women who have tradition to give birth at home, not to go to clinics or hospitals, project on family planning, project on changing plants, livestocks, transferring science technology to the highland areas etc...
In nearly 200 projects that HEDO received from foreign countries, there were 1/3 of them from organizations, universities, institutes in the UK including 9 projects funded by British Embassy.
Prof. Trinh Ngoc Trinh has introduced to HM British Ambassador about history of HEDO foundation and development from its start up to now, especially the relationship with friends over the world and the relationship between HEDO- Great Britain and British Embassy. Prof. Trinh Ngoc Trinh also thanked the English people in general as well as Great Britain in particular for the supports for the ethnic minority people in Vietnam for the last years to reduce poverty, eliminate hunger, develop education, health, science to improve the quality of life, develop the friendship between Vietnam and the UK in the remote, isolated areas. The British Ambassador welcomed and highly appreciated HEDO’s works in the last 18 years for the cause of education, health and science development and improve lives of ethnic minority people in Vietnam.
The Ambassador would like to support HEDO in the coming years to widen and strengthen the relationship and cooperation with many more organizations in the UK, and the British Embassy will directly pay attention to support and promote organizations in the UK to have more projects especially projects on education and training that in “ The Britain- Vietnam joint declaration” that was emphasized by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Prime Minister of Vietnam Nguyen Tan Dung. Hoping that in the years to come, HEDO will contribute more for the development of the ethnic minority people who are still in need in Vietnam. The Ambassador was very happy to receive 4 project proposals in education, health, poverty reduction and hunger elimination.

By Vu Thi Thu Ha
Senior Administrative Officer